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FS#184 - pacman 2.6.3-1 doesn't pick-up libtar dependency

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by john lowell (johnlowell) - Sunday, 05 October 2003, 03:14 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 05 October 2003, 03:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

pacman 2.6.3-1 went south looking for libtar during rebuild tonight when libtar was not installed. The pacman PKGBUILD didn't pick-up the need to download libtar. After manually running pacman -S libtar and installing package, pacman PKGBUILD worked.
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Closed by  Anonymous Submitter
Sunday, 05 October 2003, 03:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 05 October 2003, 03:21 GMT
  • Task details edited
This isn't really a bug... Since pacman is built is a static binary, libtar is only a buildtime dependency, not a runtime dependency. Makepkg does not support buildtime deps yet, so this can't be helped.

(for now, we usually list builddeps in the PKGBUILD as a comment somewhere. You'll see one in pacman's PKGBUILD.)

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